PSNC Digital Libraries Team

Today the results of the Association of Polish Librarians prof. Maria Dembowska Youth Prize were announced. The domain of the contest are master theses from librarianship and scientific information. The winner of the first prize is Mrs Anna Wałek for her thesis titled „Digital libraries on the dLibra platform in Poland in years 2002-2007” done under the supervision of prof. UWr dr hab. Jadwiga Sadowska from Institute of Scientific Information and Librarianship of the Wrocław University.

Our congratulations to the winner!

The MyEuropeana, a set of features for Europeana personalisation is available again. It is related to the beginning of final stage of Europeana end-users functional tests. We encourage you to use it and to report any issues (please report to: info@europeana.eu).

One of the elements of the next workshop of the StartUp-IT project, titled “How to keep up with the product success and about the project management”, will be a presentation titled “Innovation, which was successful and the consequences”. The aim of the presentation will be the discussion about the change of customers/users attitude to an IT product, caused by the increase of the product popularity. The discussed issues will be covered with examples coming from the history of the development of dLibra Digital Library Framework created and maintained by the PSNC Digital Libraries Team.

In the current edition of D-Lib magazine (Volume 15 Number 3/4) you can find two interesting papers on digitsation:

• How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitisation Programs by Rose Holley from the National Library of Australia
• Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images by Tracy Powell and Gordon Paynter from the National Library of New Zealand

We encourage you to read it!

On the 2nd of March, 2009 around 1:30 PM the total number of publications in Polish digital libraries connected to the DLF reached 200 000.

The publication number 200 000 is the Dziennik Polski issue from the 26th of August, 1967 r. published on-line by the Małopolska Digital Library.

As the total number of publications chart shows, the number of digital objects available in the DLF has doubled in the period from December 2007 to March 2009. Congratulations to all Polish digital libraries creators and contributors!